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diff --git a/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl b/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl index 6dc45daf3..b7082a341 100644 --- a/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl +++ b/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl @@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ <li><strong>Database:</strong> For version 8.x of PostgreSQL, <kbd>plpgsql</kbd> was not always installed by default and <kbd>checksetup.pl</kbd> would generate an error. This has been fixed.</li> - <li><strong>Development:</strong> Bugzilla is now HTML5 compliant.</li> + <li><strong>Development:</strong> Bugzilla is now HTML5 compliant. As a + consequence, Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported.</li> <li><strong>Email:</strong> Email generation originally was done before the jobqueue job was inserted. This is now delayed and done by <kbd>jobqueue.pl</kbd> right before sending the email which can improve @@ -288,28 +289,39 @@ happens in the web UI.</li> <li>WebService calls now support use of API keys for authentication. Usernames and passwords remain supported.</li> + <li>Invalid or expired authentication cookies and tokens now throw + errors instead of being silently ignored. <kbd>User.valid_login</kbd> + can be used to determine if they are still valid or not.</li> <li>WebService calls that are used to create and update [% terms.bugs %] and attachments now support setting and updating of flags.</li> <li><kbd>B[%%]ug.update_attachment</kbd> can update an attachment's metadata as well as its flags.</li> - <li>Invalid or expired authentication cookies and tokens now throw - errors instead of being silently ignored.</li> <li>The <kbd>product</kbd> parameter for <kbd>B[%%]ug.possible_duplicates</kbd> has been renamed to <kbd>products</kbd>.</li> <li>Some compatibility fields included in returned data that were marked to be removed in this release are now gone.</li> <li><kbd>Group.get</kbd> has been added to get information about a group and its members.</li> + <li><kbd>FlagType.get</kbd> has been added to get information about valid + flag types for a given product and component.</li> </ul> <h2 id="code_changes">Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations and Extensions</h2> <ul> + <li>Support for CVS, Bonsai and LXR has been removed entirely when viewing + attachments. This means that the <kbd>cvsroot</kbd>, <kbd>cvsroot_get</kbd>, + <kbd>bonsai_url</kbd>, <kbd>lxr_url</kbd> and <kbd>lxr_root</kbd> parameters + are all gone, as well as <kbd>cvsbin</kbd> from the <kbd>localconfig</kbd> + file.</li> <li>The <kbd>docs_urlbase</kbd> parameter has been removed. If documentation has not been compiled locally, the "Help" links and other documentation links will redirect to <a href="https://bugzilla.readthedocs.org">bugzilla.readthedocs.org</a> automatically.</li> <li>The <kbd>mostfreqthreshold</kbd> parameter has also been removed.</li> + <li>All extensions which define new public WebService methods must list them + in a <kbd>PUBLIC_METHODS</kbd> constant. Methods which are not listed there + will not be accessible remotely.</li> <li><kbd>JSON::XS</kbd> is now used instead of <kbd>Data::Dumper</kbd> for storage on configuration values in <kbd>data/params</kbd>. This should improve performance when loading the file.</li> @@ -319,6 +331,8 @@ in all places applicable.</li> <li>A new hook called <kbd>cgi_headers</kbd> has been added to allow customization of the HTTP headers returned.</kbd> + <li>A new hook called <kbd>user_check_account_creation</kbd> has been added + to add extra checks before accepting the creation of a new user account.</li> </ul> [% INCLUDE global/footer.html.tmpl %] |